Quotes About Self-improvement

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay

Every day in every way, I'm getting better. —EMILE COUE

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,Nor am I even the thing I could be.

You should plan on working 60 hours per week. The first 40 are for your employer. The remaining 20 are for you. During this remaining 20 hours you should be reading, practicing, learning and otherwise enhancing your career.

Does it make me a better person to read Cicero in the original? Cicero, for god's sake? The Alan Dershowitz of the Roman Republic?

the goal of an apprenticeship is not money, a good position, a title, or a diploma, but rather the transformation of your mind and character—the first transformation on the way to mastery. You

The character you seem to have been born with is not necessarily who you are… The Promethean task of the powerful is to remake yourself into a character of power. Working on yourself like clay should be one of your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist - an artist creating yourself.

It is often your own actions that stir up envy, your own unawareness. By becoming conscious of those actions and qualities that create envy, you can take the teeth out of it before it nibbles you to death.

So I'd gotten rid of that negativity and I'd show, "Well, here's something done right. Here's the mistake, but here's how to fix the mistake.

ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others.

If you work on yourself first, as Faraday did, developing a solid work ethic and organizational skills, eventually the right teacher will appear in your life.